{"id":490040,"date":"2026-06-09T04:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490040\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T04:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:14:15","slug":"what-tv-channel-is-france-v-northern-ireland-on-for-free-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490040\/","title":{"rendered":"What TV channel is France v Northern Ireland on for free tonight?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the favourites for this year’s World Cup, France will head to the United States after their final friendly on home soil<\/p>\n

Kylian Mbappe in action for France(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

France head into this year’s World Cup as one of the favourites – with Didier Deschamps side looking to sign off in front of their home fans in style ahead of the trip to the United States.<\/p>\n

The 2018 champions narrowly missed out on lifting the World Cup again four years ago, beaten by Argentina in the final in Qatar.<\/p>\n

With Kylian Mbappe in tow, they’re likely to be in the mix once again.<\/p>\n

Northern Ireland won’t be joining France stateside, but Michael O’Neill’s side will be looking to spoil France’s send-off this evening.<\/p>\n

Here’s everything you need to know about watching France v Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

What time is France v Northern Ireland?<\/p>\n

France v Northern Ireland kicks off at 8.10pm BST on Monday, June 8.<\/p>\n

The match will be played at Decathlon Arena – Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille.<\/p>\n

Is France v Northern Irelandon TV?<\/p>\n

Yes. The game will be shown live and free-to-air in the UK.<\/p>\n

Coverage will be available on BBC Three and BBC Two Northern Ireland, beginning at 7.30pm BST, 40 minutes before kick-off.<\/p>\n

France v Northern Ireland<\/p>\n

Viewers can watch the match live on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n

All you need is a login to watch on mobile devices, tablets, smart TVs and desktop computers.<\/p>\n

Quotes corner<\/p>\n

France midfielder Adrien Rabiot: “We don’t use this match as a friendly.<\/p>\n

“We want to do well and we want to take pleasure in playing.<\/p>\n

“We want to enjoy the moment. It’s really hard to start playing 50% and it’s complicated.<\/p>\n

“You have to play fully and having in the back of our heads that this is the last rehearsal and it would be good to finish on a good note, in order to arrive in the US with lots of confidence built.”<\/p>\n

Northern Ireland manager Michael O’Neill: “We probably have to be a badly-behaved guest, really.<\/p>\n

“That’s what we have to aspire to do, in terms of if we can make the game difficult for France, but we haven’t even mentioned that to the players.<\/p>\n

“It’s more about the level of the opposition, the quality that they have and an opportunity for us to measure ourselves, both individually and collectively as a team, is the most important thing for us.<\/p>\n

“France are the home nation, so however they choose to celebrate or give their team a send-off, as they rightly should do, is down to themselves.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the favourites for this year’s World Cup, France will head to the United States after their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,76496,40,38,41,39,102024],"class_list":["post-490040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sport-on-tv","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}